[AfriNIC-rpd] AFPUB-2010-v4-005-draft-04 Softlanding Policy Proposal

[Mark Elkins]

Well said Alan!!! Done with logic.

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:18 +0300, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Andrew Alston wrote:
> > I once again object to this policy on the grounds of clause 3.8 
> > second paragraph as below.
> >
> > AfriNIC resources are for the AfriNIC geographical region. For 
> > each allocation or assignment made during the Exhaustion Phase, 
> > no more than 10% of these resources may be used outside of the 
> > AfriNIC region, and any use outside the AfriNIC region shall be 
> > solely in support of connectivity back to the AfriNIC region.
> 
> Without any hats:
> 
> I am in favour of that clause.
> 
> The "10%" and "in support of connectivity back to the AfriNIC 
> region" is intended to allow an African company to have a few 
> routers and related infrastructure at international exchange 
> points.
> 
> If an African ISP wants have customers outside the AfriNIC region, 
> there's nothing wrong with that, but they should use address space 
> that does not come from AfriNIC.  (Alternatively, because older 
> AfriNIC policy "forgot" to require the addresses to be used in 
> Africa, they can use older AfriNIC addresses that are not subject 
> to this proposed policy.)
> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)

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